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Title: Moon Shot : The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon by Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, Howard Benedict ISBN: 1-878685-54-6 Publisher: Turner Pub Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: They Don't Make Astronauts Like These Guys Anymore!
Comment: There was a time when astronauts didn't have to be pointy headed scientists or politically correct public relations diplomats. Moonshot captures the rough and tumble, fiercely competitive early days of the Cold War space program better than most.
The real space business was much more rugged and and cruel than the public relations machine of NASA told us. The "perfect specimens" selected for the Original Seven astronaut corps were far more human than they would have wanted to admit. This account of the struggles and accomplishments of America's early astronauts tells us as much about how we have changed as a people, as it does about orbital rendezvous, astronaut training, and landing on the moon.
The technical aspects of spaceflight are in the book, but so is human drama and intrigue. The story of the dramatic comebacks of Alan Sheperd and Deke Slayton offers the kind of inspiration so many people are looking for today
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic, but comes close to being a bio. for Al Shepard
Comment: 'Moon Shot' is an excellent tome that gives a clear and consise insider look at the Space program from Explorer I to Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Apollo-Soyuz! At times, Al Shepard (one of four authors and original Mercury astronaut) seems to take the word processor away from the others and begins to change the story into, "Moon Shot: The Al Shepard Story." If you saw the adaption of this book into a documentary on TBS, you will understand. Page after page is devoted to Shepard's Apollo 14 flight but hardly anything for many of the Gemini missions. Hmmm, Shepard wasn't flying during that program...connection? All together, through, Slayton's views on the events he helped run are the real jewel. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Rating: 4
Summary: Have a blast with this fantastic book!
Comment: I'm a typical space nut, and to me, any space book is a good space book. I read this book all in one day and I was not disappointed. It gave me a lot of information about the Russian's race to the moon, and I learned stuff that I never knew before.
The part about Slayton in Russia is particularly funny. If you don't know what I'm talking about, read this book for yourself. You won't be sorry!
The only disadvantage is that there are a lot of cuss words in it, which should have been censored out before the book was published. Oh well!
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Title: Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (Thorndike Paperback Bestsellers) by Gene Kranz ISBN: 0425179877 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 08 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Deke!: U.S. Manned Space : From Mercury to the Shuttle by Donald K. Slayton, Michael Cassutt ISBN: 031285918X Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 01 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins, Charles Lindbergh ISBN: 081541028X Publisher: Cooper Square Publishers Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space by Eugene Cernan, Don Davis ISBN: 0312199066 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin ISBN: 0140272011 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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